If you negotiate it you're fscked. This is a serious BITCH to fix, by the
way, since its rather difficult to know if you've got a screwed modem on the
other end. About the only way I can figure to RELIABLY know is to figure
out a way to detect the "very slow transfer rate" in the DSP and renegotiate
down if you see it happening.
---- Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - Serving Chicagoland and Wisconsin http://www.mcs.net/ | T1's from $600 monthly / All Lines K56Flex/DOV | NEW! Corporate ISDN Prices dropped by up to 50%! Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| EXCLUSIVE NEW FEATURE ON ALL PERSONAL ACCOUNTS Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | *SPAMBLOCK* Technology now included at no costOn Sun, Jun 28, 1998 at 02:17:07PM -0400, Mark Radabaugh wrote: > Karl - > > I think you are on to something with your theory on why older Rockwell > modems are having trouble with b17 code. > > We were having problems with a Cardinal MVPV34ILC that was experiencing > very slow transfer rates. I tried experimenting with MNP/MNP5, no error > control, no compression, etc. had no affect on the problem. After seeing > your post we tried locking it to 28.8 (AT&F+MS=11,0,24000,28800 in Win95 > extra settings). The transfer rates came back up roughly where they should > be and the modem seems fine now. > > Thanks, > > Mark Radabaugh > mark@amplex.net > (419) 833-3635 > > > > - > To unsubscribe, email 'majordomo@livingston.com' with > 'unsubscribe portmaster-users' in the body of the message. > Searchable list archive: <URL:http://www.livingston.com/Tech/archive/> - To unsubscribe, email 'majordomo@livingston.com' with 'unsubscribe portmaster-users' in the body of the message. Searchable list archive: <URL:http://www.livingston.com/Tech/archive/>